Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus

Subject: Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus
From: Camper-Ted
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 01:36 PM

I know this will be a tough one for this group, but you have come through time after time. In the 1980's I heard a song on the radio about a man meeting a woman on a bus, but he was too shy to speak with her. The song went on to talk about his regret for not talking with her. It was on an easy listening station and sounded like Lobo or Dan Folgelberg. I have never been able to track down that song. I hope you can help!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 05:54 PM

Could this be a "cover" of The Trolley Song?. It might have been "updated" a bit.

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus
From: Joybell
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 06:13 PM

Could it be "Midnight Bus"? I'll try and find the words -- either from my memory or on the web.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus
From: Peace
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 06:24 PM

Midnight Bus lyrics here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus
From: Joybell
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 06:46 PM

Thanks Peace.
Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus
From: Peace
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 08:40 PM

Welcome. Figured it'd save you some time, Joybell.

Subject: Lyr Add: ATLANTA GEORGIA STRAY (Chris Gantry)
From: oldhippie
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 09:12 PM

Could it be "ATLANTA GEORGIA STRAY" - Sonny Curtis   


On the Greyhound bus trip home I was feelin' all alone
When a long haired gal sat down next to me
She said she was Atlanta bound kill some time maybe kick around
Cause it sounded like a friendly place to be
From Chicago to Kentucky we just talked awhile
And somewhere in between I was captured by her smile
But why I left the bus in Nashville has been a mystery til today
Cause for two years I've been trackin' down that Atlanta Georgia stray

Well she said all living things have a secret pair of wings
And I'm of the lucky ones who learned to fly
Though I don't even know your name I can tell we're much the same
Cause you've got that faraway look in your eyes
Right then I knew I'd found what I've been searching for
And by the tears that filled her eyes she felt the same I'm almost sure
But why I left the bus in Nashville has been a mystery til today
Cause for two years I've been trackin' down that Atlanta Georgia stray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song About Man meeting A Woman on a bus
From: Camper-Ted
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 09:48 PM

No it is not the Trolley Song and not Midnight Bus. It might be Atlanta Georgia Stray but I would have to hear it. It is not available on I-Tunes. Any other suggestions?

Subject: Lyr Add: AT LUNCHTIME (Roger McGough)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 05:44 AM

" At Lunchtime - A story of Love"

When the bus stopped suddenly to avoid
damaging a mother and child in the road,
the young lady in the greenhat sitting opposite
was thrown across me, and not being one to
miss an opportunity i started to makelove
with all my body.

At first she resisted saying that it was too early in the morning and too soon
after breakfast and that anyway she found
me repulsive. But when i explained that
this being a nuclearage, the world was going
to end at lunchtime, she took off her greenhat,
put her busticket in her pocket
and joined in the exercise.

The buspeople, and there were many of them,
were shockedandsurprised and amused and annoyed, but when the
word got around that the world was coming to an end at
lunchtime, they put their pride in their pockets with their bustickets and
madelove one with the other. And even the busconductor,
being over, climbed into the cab and struck up some sort of
relationship with the driver.

Thatnight, on the bus coming home,
wewere all alittle embarrassed, especially me and the younglady
in the greenhat, and we all started to say in different ways howhasty
and foolish we had been. Butthen, always having been a bitofalad, i stood up and said it was a pity that the world didn;t nearly end every lunchtime and
that we could always pretend. And then it happened.......

Quick asa crash we all changed partners
and soon the bus was acquiver with white
mothballbodies doing naughty things.

And the next day
And everyday
In everybus
In everystreet
In everytown
In everycountry

people pretended that the world was coming
to an end at lunchtime. It still hasn't
Although in a way it has.

- Roger McGough
(the punctuation and spacing are Roger's)

My favourite bus meeting poem.
G